My mind is a peaceful place to be.

A mind works with what it has been given. Whatever went in during the day is the material available at three in the morning — the argument in the comments, the news cycle, forty minutes of scrolling that left nothing behind but a low hum.

Peace does not require ignorance. It is that the intake is one of the few parts of this you genuinely control.

People whose heads are reasonably quiet places tend to be unremarkable about how they got there. They read something long. They walk without headphones. They leave a bit of the day unfilled, which is where most decent thinking happens anyway.